Turner Lates: Resistance

Stef Dickers

Stef is the Special Collections and Archives Manager and has been responsible for the development of the Bishopsgate Institute's collections on the history of London, protest and activism and LGBTQ+ Britain. He qualified as an archivist in 2001 and started at Bishopsgate in 2005.

Previous to this, Stefan worked in the archives of the London School of Economics and Senate House Library.

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Sue Sanders

Emeritus Professor Sue Sanders of the Harvey Milk Institute, an “out and proud” lesbian, is chair of Schools OUT UK. In 2004 she co-founded the UK's LGBT History Month with Paul Patrick an annual event which happens every February. In 2007 she was responsible for The Classroom which has lesson plans that ‘usualise’ LGBT people in all their diversity for all ages across the curriculum. She co runs OUTing the Past an annual international festival of LGBT+ history. As an educator and activist, Sue is a proponent of an inclusive and relevant curriculum in education and works to ‘educate out’ all forms of prejudice. She has also worked extensively in the criminal justice system attempting to challenge hate crime in all its forms. She has been the recipient of several awards including the National Educations Union Lifetime achievement award in 2024.

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Syeda Ali

Syeda is a final-year PhD History researcher at the University of Cambridge, supported by Wolfson College and the Vice Chancellor's Scholarship. She returned to academia following a career in secondary history education, having taught mainly in inner-city state schools in London, as well as internationally. Syeda is deeply committed to promoting diversity within the history curriculum and advancing equality and inclusion across the school system.

She completed her MA in Queer History at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she first developed an interest in oral history methodologies. Her current research explores the intersections of education policy and school practice in 1980s Britain, with a particular focus on the regulation of gender and sexuality. Through oral history interviews with teachers and former pupils, she is examining the impact of Section 28 in schools between 1988 and 2003, uncovering often-overlooked forms of resistance within the education system.

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Stella Dadzie

Stella Dadzie is a writer, artist and feminist historian, best known for co-authoring the Feminist classic, The Heart of the Race: Black Women's lives in Britain (Virago, 1985 & Verso 2018). Her book A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery & Resistance (Verso, 2020) centres the resistance of enslaved black women. She is a founder member of OWAAD (Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent), a national umbrella group for Black women that emerged in the late 1970s as part of the British Civil Rights movement, and her personal archive in Brixton‘s Black Cultural Archives is one of the most visited by researchers and scholars from across the world. She was a consultant to the Resistance exhibition and a contributor to the accompanying book. She is currently working to support the National Maritime Museum’s commitment to highlighting untold narratives.

Kelly Foster

Kelly is a public historian, researcher, and knowledge justice advocate. Her work is centred around "Black digital practice" and community/independent archives. Currently, she is the Knowledge Equity Associate at the TrAIN research centre, University of the Arts London, and a Elsa Goveia Visiting Fellow in the history department at Goldsmith's, University of London.

@LondonLabrish

Charlee M. Piper

Charlee M. Piper is a Margate-based artist who works primarily with textiles and lino block prints, but has also been known to dabble in collage, watercolours, and sculpture. Their work frequently ruminates on political and queer issues, along with their upbringing in the Catholic Church and subsequent journey into atheism.

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Falle Nioke

Falle Nioke is a singer & percussionist from Guinea Conakry, West Africa. He sings in French, English, Susu, Fulani, Malinke & Coniagui, & plays a range of cultural African instruments to accompany his voice (gongoma, Bolon, Cassi).

@falle_nioke

Bernadette Hawkes

Bernadette has been presenting an internet radio show called The Happening since 2015. Her show with Margate Radio airs on the 4th Saturday of the month. She shares music from the following genres including: soul, jazz, reggae, rnb, jazz funk, nu jazz, gospel, vocal jazz standards, calypso/soca and the occasional pop/rock if the mood is right.

@dancequeendqbernadette